Montalvo F F, Lasater T T, Valdez N G
Child Welfare. 1982 Jun;61(6):341-52.
The Mexican-American Culture Simulator introduces a new, cost-effective method of training child welfare workers for cultural awareness. It was published in 1981 by the Worden School as a two-volume module containing 20 vignettes each [7]. The accompanying trainer's manual provides instruction for conducting modular training and a discussion guide that analyzes the values and practice implications in each vignette [8]. The simulator has a number of key advantages over some of the more traditional seminar approaches to this type of training. 1. It is directly related to child welfare practice, providing information in a familiar problem-oriented casework format that facilitates the transfer of knowledge to job-related activities. 2. It enables the trainees to learn at the their own pace, in private, and at a location of their own choice. 3. It exposes the trainees to standardized material that enables them to assess their progress, and controls for variations in the trainer's expertise. 4. It is brief and easily administered, thus allowing for its efficient distribution and use in training large numbers of workers. 5. It provides a baseline level of knowledge that can be supplemented with more extensive and specific training to meet differing staff needs. Its principal disadvantage results from its apparent effectiveness and utility: there is the possibility that it might be used as the sole source of training for child welfare workers about the Mexican-American community whose cultural pattern is too rich, varied, and a complex to be captured by a single instrument that focuses on cognitive awareness of selected traditional values. Within its limitations, however, cultural simulator training introduces an interim method of improving services to the Hispanic community.
墨西哥裔美国人文化模拟器引入了一种全新的、具有成本效益的方法，用于培训儿童福利工作者的文化意识。它于1981年由沃登学院出版，是一个两卷本模块，每个模块包含20个 vignettes [7]。随附的培训师手册提供了进行模块化培训的指导以及一份讨论指南，该指南分析了每个 vignette 中的价值观和实践意义 [8]。与一些更传统的此类培训研讨会方法相比，该模拟器具有许多关键优势。1. 它与儿童福利实践直接相关，以熟悉的面向问题的个案工作形式提供信息，便于将知识转移到与工作相关的活动中。2. 它使学员能够按照自己的节奏，私下在自己选择的地点学习。3. 它让学员接触标准化材料，使他们能够评估自己的进展，并控制培训师专业知识的差异。4. 它简短且易于管理，因此能够高效地分发并用于培训大量工作人员。5. 它提供了一个基础知识水平，可以通过更广泛和具体的培训进行补充，以满足不同员工的需求。其主要缺点源于其明显的有效性和实用性：有可能它可能被用作儿童福利工作者关于墨西哥裔美国人社区培训的唯一来源，而该社区的文化模式过于丰富、多样且复杂，无法被一个专注于对选定传统价值观的认知意识的单一工具所涵盖。然而，在其局限性范围内，文化模拟器培训引入了一种改进对西班牙裔社区服务的临时方法。
